Xerox'd · 800 copies
Zine Vol. 6 Issue 24 Taipei, TW Est. MMXX

Ruby Chen.

Cut-paste editorials, risograph splatters, and cassette-release sleeves from a kitchen counter in Taipei.

24Issues printed
6Years running
17Cassette sleeves
3KCopies at TAB
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01 · Manifesto

The editor's
note.

cut. paste. photocopy. repeat.

Ruby runs a zine out of a small apartment with a big photocopier. Twenty-four issues in, six years deep, and still stapling every copy by hand on a Friday afternoon. The work sits somewhere between editorial design, fan culture, and the argument that print is fine, thanks for asking. Day-to-day: writing, cutting, xeroxing, mailing, and occasionally sleeping. Paid in trade when possible, paid in NT$ when not.

24
Issues printed
6
Years running
17
Cassette sleeves
3K
Copies at TAB
XEROX HOUSE #04 — Night ShiftB-SIDE · Static Love EPMOTHER TONGUE Poster SeriesANTI-TRENDS Manifesto Zine XEROX HOUSE #04 — Night ShiftB-SIDE · Static Love EPMOTHER TONGUE Poster SeriesANTI-TRENDS Manifesto Zine
02 · The Grind

Gigs & day jobs.

rent was due & still is
Editor-in-Chief & Publisher— founder / glue gun
2020 – Now · Taipei
XEROX HOUSE
Quarterly print zine, cassette sub-label, occasional risograph residencies. Four-person rotating collective. Every issue a black-and-pink printed nightmare stapled on a Friday and mailed on a Monday.
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24issues shipped
Staff Designer— day job survivor
2018 – 2020 · Taipei
Big Issue Taiwan
Monthly staff designer on the vendor-sold street-press edition. Laid out 22 issues, redesigned the masthead twice, and drew roughly 400 tiny icons nobody noticed.
editorialindesigngrid-wrangling
22issues laid out
Junior Art Director— sleeve rat
2017 – 2018 · Taipei
B-Side Records
Sleeve and poster work for a noise-rock cassette label based out of a basement in Gongguan. Nine sleeves, six gig posters, one short-run cassette run that sold out in a weekend.
packagingposterscassettenoise
14sleeves printed
Print Intern— ink-stained intern
2016 · Vancouver
Moniker Press
Summer stint at a risograph-first studio. Learned to unjam a Riso with a chopstick, clean drums without crying, and why nobody should ever print blue over green.
risographbinderyhumility
3months, ink everywhere
03 · Back Issues

Selected issues.

staple once. sell cheap.
No. 00 · Print anthology

XEROX HOUSE #04 — Night Shift

Risograph · 2-colour pink/black · Print run 800

Forty-page quarterly anthology of photographs, essays, and hand-lettering collected from night-shift workers across Taipei. Sold out in eleven days. Second print run 800 copies.

2024 40 pages NT$220
No. 01 · Cassette release

B-SIDE · Static Love EP

Cassette sleeve + J-card · Edition of 200

Full packaging design for a 12-song noise-pop cassette including die-cut J-card, fold-out lyric poster, and sticker sheet. Risograph-printed at the studio, assembled around the kitchen table.

2023 1 + 12 pages NT$450
No. 02 · Poster series

MOTHER TONGUE Poster Series

Riso · 6-colour rotation · Edition of 50 each

Twelve-poster series commissioned by Taipei Poetry Festival. Each poster pairs a Taiwanese-Hokkien proverb with a photograph of the block the proverb came from. Three shown at Milan Design Week 2024.

2024 12 pages NT$900
No. 03 · Free newsprint

ANTI-TRENDS Manifesto Zine

Stapled newsprint · Print run 3000

A 24-page rant against "aesthetic" culture, xeroxed on pink newsprint, distributed free at the 2023 Taipei Art Book Fair. Three thousand copies moved in two days. Reprinted twice by request.

2023 24 pages Free / PWYW
04 · The Kit

Tools in the tote.

glue stick, scissors, spite
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